Drug
Test False Positive Results

Drug
Testing Results

According to a news
report from the Los Angeles Times New Service, a study
of 161 prescription and over the counter medications
showed that 65 of them produced false positive drug
test results in the most widely administered urine drug
test procedure. Ronald Siegel, a psychopharmacologist
at UCLA said 'The widespread testing and reliance on
tell-tale traces of drugs in the urine is simply a panic
reaction invoked because the normal techniques for controlling
drug use haven't worked very well. The next epidemic
will be testing abuse." Currently there are
more than 250 over-the-counter medications and prescription
drugs that can cause false positives.